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rankbooster

rankbooster

IS-IT--Management
Jun 2, 2005
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A prospect of mine uses ColdFusion to create their website.
Apparently they do in order to retrieve data from a database. I have never used ColdFusion.

As a search engine optimizer, can I just FTP into their server, tweak the html and cfm files, or, does ColdFusion have such a "hold" on the cfm files that I won't be able to alter them without screwing up the site?

Thanks!

 
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depends on what editor you use. front page, you'll botch it up for sure. cf is real simple. doesn't have much of a "hold" on it. CGI/Pearl is better for that.

<html>
<head>
all your meta tags
</head>
<body>
<cfset name = "Joe">
<cfoutput>
Hi my name is #name#
</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>

looks just like html.


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So, as long as I steer clear of the cfset and cfoutput tags I should be fine?

 
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As long as you steer clear of cf-anything. If you mess with a cfif statement, you'll screw something up. If you change a cfloop, you'll screw something up. If you even look at a cfquery wrong,...well, you get the idea. [thumbsup2]

You can tweak the html in a .cfm file just like you would a regular .html file, just don't mess with a cf tag if you don't know what it is.



Hope This Helps!

ECAR
ECAR Technologies, LLC

"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher
 
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good advice by ecar, well put. star for you.


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however... when you're making changes to the page, the first thing you need to do is make a back up before you change anything. that way if you break it you can easily put a working file back online.

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outside of messing with the coldfusion there is another problem with editing SEO via FTP. Or I should say there is another route you can go.

If the page content is stored in the database you can create additional columns to store metta and SEO type text.

When the page content is generated, your special metta tags are also generated at the same time and bam!

 
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what you're missing Ksea is, rankbooster isn't a developer so building dynamic content like that isn't in his job description. Chances are the page isn't entirely in a database. I've seen very few sites with all the content in a database, only that which needs to be dynamic.

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